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Massage Therapy Shown To Be Effective in Relieving Back and Neck Pain
Another week, yet another really great article and conclusion to reference from the Massage Therapy Journal. From page 97 of its Winter, 2010 edition, there is an excellent article demonstrating massage therapy’s proven effectiveness in relieving chronic neck and lower … Continue reading
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Tagged back pain, health, Massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, neck pain, pain, therapy
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Massage Therapy for Pain Relief from Scars
Last week we wrote generally about how sports massage therapy can help football players, stating that regular massage can help keep players fresh during long periods of training, as well as help players avoid or manage their injuries. Yet another … Continue reading
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Tagged health, Massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, muscle pain, pain, scar, scars
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Sports Massage Therapy and Football
The large, hulking physique of a professional football player usually doesn’t illicit images of a massage therapist, but to the writers of this Blog it most certainly does. Why?
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management, Sports Massage
Tagged football, health, Massage, massage therapy, Sports Massage
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Compiling Data from the AMTA’s and ABMP’s 2010 Massage Therapy Fact Sheets: Money and Massage Therapists
Last week we looked at the ABMP’s and the AMTA’s fact sheets for 2010 (click here and here) and found that the industry is a multi-billion-dollar one that is growing quickly in the amount of money it generates per year. … Continue reading
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Tagged ABMP fact sheet, AMTA Fact Sheet, average income, Massage, massage industry, massage therapist, massage therapy, money
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Compiling Data from the AMTA’s and ABMP’s 2010 Massage Therapy Fact Sheets: Money
Forgive me again for being late in exploring this (we’re way into 2011 already!), but I wanted take a look at the industry fact sheets for massage therapy of 2010 from two major professional organizations, the AMTA and the ABMP. … Continue reading
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Tagged ABMP fact sheet, AMTA Fact Sheet, Massage, massage industry, massage therapist, massage therapy, money
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Massage Therapy and the Skin (Part II)
Last week we wrote a post about an article in the AMTA’s Massage Therapy Journal about massage therapy and the skin, describing how the article does a good job of listing what therapists should look for when massaging and doing … Continue reading
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Tagged AMTA, infections, Massage, massage therapist, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Journal, skin, skin conditions
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Massage Therapy and the Skin (Part I)
Often a massage therapy career can be a bit of a grind, especially when a full schedule of regular clients keeps you seeing the same people and performing the same intake/massage. Fortunately, most licensing bodies require massage therapists to take … Continue reading
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Tagged AMTA, Massage, massage therapist, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Journal, skin
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Massage Can Help Those Suffering From PTSD
Over the past two weeks we’ve been looking at the increasing popularity of attending massage therapy school, and earlier this year we wrote an entry about massage therapy being named one of the top careers out there. The U.S. News … Continue reading
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Tagged altruism, health, high blood pressure, Intensive Care Unit, Massage, massage therapist, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, stress, veterans
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ABMP Massage Profession Metrics: The Growth, and Decline, of Massage School Enrollment (Part II)
Last week we wrote about the ABMP Massage Profession Metrics, and their impressive set of data that document the incredible rise, and recent decline, of massage school enrollees and graduates. Interestingly, and as we ended last week’s posting on, while … Continue reading
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ABMP Massage Profession Metrics: The Growth, and Decline, of Massage School Enrollment (Part I)
Regular readers of this Blog know that we love the AMTA’s annual fact sheet and the statistics and data provided each year that help shed light on the multi-billion-dollar massage therapy industry. We’re now happy to announce that the ABMP … Continue reading
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Tagged ABMP fact sheet, ABMP Profession Metrics, Massage, massage industry, massage school trends, massage schools, massage therapists, massage therapy
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